Delta Flyer

Delta Flyer

First appearance	"Extreme Risk"
Affiliation	United Federation of Planets Starfleet
Launched	2375
General characteristics
Class	Delta Flyer
Registry	NCC-74656
Armaments	Phasers Photonic Torpedoes
Defenses	Borg Enhanced Deflector shields

The Delta Flyer is a shuttlecraft attached to the USS Voyager in the science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager.^[1]

The fictional vehicle first appeared in the episode "Extreme Risk." The model ship "was designed by series production designer Richard James and senior illustrator Rick Sternbach."^[2] In the storyline of the show, it was originally the brainchild of Lieutenant Tom Paris, who took to heart Seven's suggestion (in an earlier episode) that he should build a new shuttlecraft to overcome the deficiencies of Class 2 shuttles. In the storyline, Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres contributes her engineering skills and Seven of Nine her expertise in Borg weaponry to the ship's design. Tom Paris outfitted the cockpit with manual flight controls, due to his love of flying.

In another episode, the Delta Flyer was used to test quantum slipstream technology. The original Delta Flyer was used in one episode to infiltrate a Borg Tactical Cube and it was destroyed; the crew quickly built a new version to replace it.

After the episode in which they married, newly-weds Paris and Torres used the Delta Flyer as their honeymoon vehicle.

Fans of the show from early on criticized how the USS Voyager, alone in the Delta Quadrant, seemed to have an inexhaustible supply of shuttlecraft.^[3]

References

1. ^ Staff, "Delta Flyer" startrek.com Library
2. ^ Michael Okuda, Denise Okuda, Debbie Mirek, The Star Trek Encyclopedia. New York: Pocket Books (1999): 599. Note that the entry on the Delta Flyer is in the Supplement near the back of the book, rather than in the main D section closer to the front.
3. ^ Rick Kuzma, "Star Trek: Voyager Statistics" Nitpicker Central (1997). "Maybe you should stay out of them, then. How many shuttlecraft does an Intrepid-class ship have? Sorry, that's currently classified information. We can tell you though, that Voyager has lost seven of them."

External links

• Delta Flyer at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)